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The following post is part of a series of posts that are published every Sunday to update readers on what Mark G has been up to with respect to finishing off games on his "Pile of Shame". The games to target are picked by Choicest Games contributors Choona, Luke and myself. As I'll be talking about my progress through these games, there may be spoilers ahead, especially for games containing a narrative. Consider yourself warned.
Hand of Fate
- Picked by Me
- Percentage Complete = 83%
Yep, same story as last week I'm afraid: I failed the King of Plague stage once again. Got a couple of new tokens unlocked though for "The Lovers" card (helping two lovers flee a town despite angering a guild master and his mob) and "The River" card (managed to pick up a ring at the bottom of a river… MY PRECIOUSSSS!!!). It's a pity since again I was doing so well – there was even one fight against Jack of Dust and two lava golems and I only got hit once! But still what stuffed me up in the end was Mr Lionel's stupid Goblin King's Halls sidequest (Number four to be precise). Usually I find avoiding traps easy but this fourth one I managed to get killed on – and so ends my story once again!
I really like the Guardian Angel card though that you can sometimes get at the beginning of the game – it lets you redraw cards if you happen to make an unlucky choice – very useful in case you pick a Failure or Huge Failure card.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
- Picked by Me
- Percentage Complete = 100%
Completed the game and I love how the epilogues work in the new
The Walking Dead and there are
so many Clementine stories out there (just search for them online if you don't believe me) – but that's because Season 2 had different endings not to mention you get quite a few choices to make in this game too. Through these games you see Clementine growing up from a little girl to a young independent woman (well almost, she's only just hit puberty in this season) – it also looks like we will see more of Clementine in the final season of
The Walking Dead and I'm looking forward to it.
Overall, I enjoyed my experience with
A New Frontier: there are quite a few different outcomes that could be had in this instalment and this game has worked pretty well on a modern PC – except for the occasional black line artifacts and graphical glitches (e.g. characters that shouldn't be in the scene) – at least there's no framerate drops!
Stardew Valley
- Picked by Me
- Percentage Complete = 4%
I've been going through a rough patch of cluster headaches recently so when I can't sleep and the headaches aren't so bad yet that I want to dig my eye out, I was thinking, maybe I should try a game that people consider "relaxing" or "calming": candidates included
Euro Truck Simulator 2,
The Witness and this game,
Stardew Valley. Surprisingly, playing the game for an hour actually
did help the headache go away, although it might've been a coincidence more than anything else (confirmed on a later cluster headache attack – it was just a coincidence).
I haven't really done too much in the game. I've spent about a week of game time on the farm and sold my first crop of parsnips (talk about fast growing plants!). I also managed to meet most of the townsfolk. My current goals are to give a gift to one of the villagers, buy a chicken coop (which costs 4,000 gold), investigate the dilapidated Stardew Valley community centre and do some adventuring so that I can join the Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School... er I mean, Adventurer's Guild...
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
- Picked by Me
- Percentage Complete = 25%
I haven't made any further progress on this – it's now on hold while I am distracted by Telltale adventures 😊.
Battlefield 1
- Picked by Me
- Percentage Complete = 10%
I haven't made any further progress on this – it's now on hold while I am distracted by Telltale adventures 😊.
XCOM 2
- Picked by Luke
- Percentage Complete = 32%
Made a bit more progress with
XCOM 2 but unfortunately lost one of my veteran rangers to a Muton counter-attack: I attempted to slash him but instead got hit back for a whopping 8 damage! Anyway, the mission was ultimately a success but at a pretty high cost. It seems that ADVENT is still making progress on their Avatar Project though so I've been trying to make a beeline to one of their blacksites in Western Europe and the mission apparently has a difficulty rating of "Very Difficult" – great. I'm not really sure if my troops are prepared enough to take on the mission (since I'm not sure whether you need certain armour or weapon upgrades or not) so I'll be going into it blind like it was with the first blacksite mission.
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- Picked by Choona
- Percentage Complete = 0%
Choona has not picked a new game off my Pile of Shame for me to play this week – so I guess I had a bit of a break of sorts. Hopefully he'll have something for me next week!
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